Environment
We live in an increasingly chemical world. However, many of the effects of chemical use are still being discovered. Projects in this area explore the pressing, universal issues surrounding chemical production and the subsequent risks to human and environmental health. Through access to leading and emerging scholars and the combination of original and historically grounded social scientific studies on issues of contemporary political importance, projects in this area strive to provide accessible resources to those interested in chemical regulatory practices, as well as connection to the histories of those working on behalf of effective environmental safeguards.
Goals:
- Make contemporary research usable, accessible, and relevant to a large constituency (through various multimedia formats).
- Pinpoint main stakeholders and their relationships to one another (governments, industry, community groups and citizens, scientists and engineers).
- Generate discussion on contemporary regulatory and policy issues by using historical perspectives and making connections across cultures and time periods.
- Act as a leading, active resource for all those interested in historical and contemporary issues regarding the chemical sciences (with an environmental focus).
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